Tagged: 2000

July 7, 2000

Download Audio Right Wing PAN Wins Mexican Election, Pledges to Fight Corruption Mexico’s president-elect Vicente Fox has announced his plans for sweeping reforms at the federal level. In Baja California where his party has...

June 23, 2000

Download Audio Bush Refuses to Stop Execution of Possibly Innocent Man Gary Graham, also known as Shaka Sankofa appears headed for the death chamber. Graham’s defenders point to the incompetence of his court appointed...

June 15, 2000

Download Audio 20,000 UNDOCUMENTED WORKERS RALLY FOR AMNESTY THE AFL-CIO KICKED OFF A CAMPAIGN TO DEFEND UNDOCUMENTED WORKERS THIS WEEK. A CROWD OF CLOSE TO TWENTY THOUSAND JAMMED THE L.A. COLISEUM AS THE LABOR...

June 9, 2000

Download Audio TANKERS SPILLS 50,000 GALLONS OF OIL INTO BOSTON HARBOR A TUGBOAT STRUCK AND RUPTURED A TANKER, DUMPING AN ESTIMATED FIFTY THOUSAND GALLONS OF HEATING OIL INTO BOSTON HARBOR. DAVID GOODMAN HAS THIS...

June 2, 2000

Download Audio 50 Thousand March Against IMF in Argentina The International Monetary Fund was the target of another protest demonstration this week, as about 50 thousand Argentines turned out in Buenos Aires to denounce...

May 26, 2000

Download Audio US Military Once Again Helps Indonesia The US military has quietly resumed cooperation with the Indonesian military after cutting off ties last year during the violent repression in East Timor. American officials...

May 19, 2000

Download Audio IMPORTANT TECHNICAL NOTICE: This week’s story about pharmaceuticals in Buenos Aires does not contain voice over translations. Stations wishing to provide such translations may wish to use the following script for help...

May 12, 2000

Download Audio General Strike in South Africa South Africa’s powerful Congress of South African Trade Unions, which helped topple apartheid, are now turning their attention to global trade. About half of the country’s workers...

May 5, 2000

Download Audio Argentinean Workers Go on Strike Organized labor in Argentina began a national strike today to protest new laws that, activists say, are anti-worker. The strike is the latest in a string of...

April 28, 2000

Download Audio Latinos and the Labor Movement Some eight thousand janitors in Los Angeles – mostly immigrants – ended a three-week-long strike. They won hefty pay increases and massive public support. Robin Urevich looks...